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Funded status of public pension plans: 2012

Publication Date: October 1, 2012

Severely underfunded public defined benefit plans will have to try a bit of everything to shrink liabilities, from benefit cuts to contribution hikes to accelerated payments, and paying more attention to costs overall.

Public pension plan executives keeping a watchful eye over their funding levels will have another number to worry about next year when new Governmental Accounting Standards Board rules usher in a stark indicator: net pension liability.